Quotes About Freedom

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.

The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights.

We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer.

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.

The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors.

A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. . . . Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.

As long as men die, liberty will never parish.

Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do

There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.

The man is free who is protected from injury.

It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a lot with our founding fathers' principles of freedom.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission?

The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.

To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.